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The outbreaks include two laying operations in Iowa and Minnesota that house about 4 million hens.
Turkey has first H5N1 outbreak since 2008, and Taiwan reports 5 more H5N8 outbreaks.
An additional case of MERS-CoV today as well as a recovery over the weekend have been reported from Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH). They bring the cumulative totals in that country since June 2012 to 983 cases, including 428 deaths, 552 recoveries, and 3 active cases.
China's Jiangxi province on May 1 announced a new H7N9 avian influenza case, involving a 39-year old woman from Jiujiang who is hospitalized in critical condition, according to a provincial health department statement translated and posted by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board.
Evidence includes a gene signature match from the woman's blood and Ebola RNA in the man's semen.
The emergency declaration activates response plans statewide and in affected counties.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said today that it and partner groups working on earthquake response in Nepal are deploying extra medications and equipment to prevent the spread of diarrheal diseases such as cholera, which can spread when disasters damage and contaminate the clean water supply.
Groups estimate that at least 2.8 million people have been displaced, with many living in 16 makeshift camps.
Flu activity continues to hang on in a few northeastern states, but most markers declined further last week, except for the hospitalization rate, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today.
The lab worker was infected after a needlestick injury, despite receiving the vaccine 10 months prior.
Nine more outbreaks in Iowa put that state's losses at a quarter of the state's 60 million layer hens.
Several lessons to be learned from an outbreak involving 1 sick dog and 4 human cases.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today issued a proposed rule requesting additional scientific data to support the safety and effectiveness of certain ingredients used in over-the-counter healthcare antiseptics, the agency said in a news release.
Officials announce that the Americas are the world's first region to officially eliminate rubella and congenital rubella syndrome.
The 133-nation survey shows major gaps in preventing antibiotic misuse and cutting the spread of drug resistance.
Lab-confirmed cases held steady last week, while some response statistics show reason for concern.
Minnesota, the epicenter of the H5N2 avian influenza battle, today reported 11 more outbreaks on poultry farms, including 8 confirmed detections and 3 presumptive positives, raising the state's total to 67.
Four cases of MERS-CoV in Saudi Arabia, one of them fatal, were officially reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) for the period Apr 14 to 20, according to an update today.
The new cases, all previously reported by the Saudi Ministry of Health (MOH) and noted by CIDRAP News, are in adult men, and tracing of household and healthcare contacts is ongoing.
The plan seeks to cut cases, limit cases to coastal areas, and boost contact tracing and surveillance.
Avian flu has been found in a dead duck and dead goose in Kentucky and in more farm turkeys in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Two straight weeks of low influenza activity signal that the long 2014-15 flu season, marked by its heavy impact on seniors and poor vaccine performance, is drawing to an end, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a short review of the season yesterday.
